The difference among bidding, Gold bid, Red bid, Green Standard and Chaka batch of Rose Summer in Ruoxia Village

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In 2011, Adam followed his consultant Willem Boot on an expedition in the forest around the manor, where he discovered a variety of wild tree species in a jungle magically surrounded by dense forests, of which the most surprising was the wild rose summer. Later, they learned that this was the Gori Gesha forest, where the rose summer coffee variety was first found.

They collected seeds from native rose summer trees, and after careful screening, they sent the seeds to professional institutions for genetic testing to determine that they belonged to the original collection site of Panamanian rose summer varieties; then, through the study of the plant shape of coffee trees, the appearance and size of coffee beans, and the cup test results, they selected the roses that are closest to the current Panamanian rose summer, and began to raise seedlings.

-Coffee varieties now grown in Rosa Village

Because of its name, the coffee farm in Rosa Village often makes people misunderstand that only Rosa Coffee is grown in Rose Village. In fact, in addition to two varieties, there are also native species named Illubabor.

Fine management:

Internal grading of Ruoxia Village

Flavor and product

Even in the top estates, there are differences in the quality of the coffee produced. In order to live up to the "flavor reputation" of Ruoxia Village, a strict grading system has been implemented within the village.

Competitive bidding batch

Accounting for only 3.7% of the annual output of Rose Xia Village, the top batch of the carefully selected manor can only be obtained through the global bidding of 2018 Rose Xia Village Coffee Manor. The cup test score of the 2018 bidding batch is 88.15-92.67 points, which is divided into champion selection (Champion's Reserve) and manor selection (Farm Reserve).

Gold standard batch

It accounts for only 5% of the annual output of Ruoxia Village. The batches usually selected by competitors from all over the world, bakers with high quality requirements will also be purchased, with complete traceability, outstanding flavor and high complexity of each batch. It is the best grade of the manor second only to competitive bidding.

Red label batches

The batch with complete traceability has the typical flavor of Rosa Village, and the flavor intensity and complexity are slightly weaker than the gold standard batch. It is a single product batch with very high performance-to-price ratio.

Green label batches

A batch from a single plot and a single variety, with a typical flavor of Rosa Village, with a slightly weaker flavor intensity and complexity than the red label batch.

Chaka batches

The blend of Rosa Coffee produced in Ruoxia Village includes three varieties, namely, Gori Gesha, Gesha 1931 (Gesha 1931) and Illubabor (Ethiopian primary disease resistant variety).

Multiple strict selection of bidding lots in Rose Summer Village in 2018

Cup test / announcement

Since the bidding in Ruoxia Village began in 2017, due to the phenomenon of competitive and non-competitive bidding batches with the same batch number on the market, Ruoxia Village has made great efforts to reform this year. 2018 of the bidding batches are all independent batches. The selection of bidding batches took nearly 3 months, and 31 bidding batches were finally finalized after several rounds of repeated cup testing.

Multiple rounds of strict selection of bidding batches

The first round of screening began at the end of January, when the landowners Adam and Rachel, together with their quality control team and Willem Boot consulting team as far away as the United States, began cup testing in Ethiopia and rest for more than 6 weeks. in the cup test, in order to prevent different cup test results due to different ordering, each batch of beans must go through at least two rounds of cup tests in different order to ensure accurate results.

The owner of Ruoxia Village and the bidding batch of Willem Boot Cup Test

After the first round of cup testing, the two sides will compare the data, about 60-70% of the batches agree, and the remaining batches that do not agree need to be further tested; in April 2018, the manor team and its consulting team gathered at the office of Rosa Village in the Ethiopian capital for a second round of cup test selection. The focus of this round is to test the changes in the initial bidding batches and to re-compare and discuss the previously disputed batches.

It is worth mentioning that Gori Gesha, from the Shewa-jibabu plot, performed well this year. In the bidding lots, the winner and the manor selected champion came from the sunny Gori Rosa coffee on the site.

-GRAND CRU is in the testing office of Ruoxia Village Cup.

Bidding lots of Rose Summer Village in 2018

Add the size index of the number of eyes

In the end, the owner and the team finally selected the best 31 batches from 117 batches, but in order to further improve the flavor of the 31 batches, the team conducted a new series of tests. By comparing different numbers of eyes, they found that beans with larger eyes performed better in cup tests. As a result, they decided that in the bidding batch, the mesh number of Rosa 1931 was 17 or more, and that of Gori Rosa and Illubabor was 16 and more. But because Ethiopia's existing mesh screening equipment can only screen beans with 14 or more mesh, landowner Adam also bought back dozens of coffee laboratories from the United States, and hired a large number of workers to manually screen the beans in the bidding batches.

-manual screening of coffee beans

After round after round of cup tests, the bidding batches of Rose Village in 2018 were finally determined, which were divided into champion selection (7 batches, each batch only 90kg) and manor selection (24 batches, each batch only 120kg) a total of 31 batches, including 26 sun batches, 4 washing batches and 1 honey treatment batch.

-different proportion of parcels in bidding batches

In the bidding batch, the proportion of three coffee varieties in Rosa Village is 69.1% for Rosa 1931, 27.5% for Gori and 3.4% for Illubabor.

The annual bidding batch of Ruoxia Village finally stands out after repeated cup tests, which is why it ended up with a high price in its first independent bid last year and attracted the attention of the industry.

Not long ago, GRAND CRU joined hands with Rosa Village to hold a national flavor tour of Rose Xia Village bidding batches and collection batches, all of which were unveiled and captured the taste buds of many friends.

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